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An Air Force officer Group Captain Arun Marwaha was arrested on Thursday by the Delhi police on charges of sharing details of secret Indian Air Force documents with Pakistani spy agency ISI.
According to media reports, an FIR has been filed under the relevant sections of Officials Secrets Act. The official has now been sent to five days’ custody.
“He was arrested on Wednesday after a case was registered against him under the Official Secrets Act (OSA),” Special Cell’s Special Commissioner M.M. Oberoi told IANS.
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The 51-year-old accused allegedly used a smartphone to click pictures of classified documents pertaining to combat exercises at the IAF headquarters and then used mobile application WhatsApp to pass on the information.
It is being told that the accused was honey-trapped online by the Pakistani intelligence agency ISI (Inter-Services Intelligence) operatives who came in touch with the IAF official through Facebook.
He was initially detained on January 31 by the Indian Air Force for investigation after his activities were found suspicious. The Air Force had approached the Delhi Police to investigate the case.
According to a Special Cell officer, privy to the investigation, Marwaha, 51, shared the information and documents with two Pakistani agents who chatted with him on social media site pretending to be women.
According to the Special Cell’s officers, a few months ago, the officer befriended on Facebook the ISI agents, who posed as women models.
“They chatted regularly on WhatsApp… and also allegedly exchanged intimate messages,” the officer said, adding after gaining Marwaha’s trust, the “Pakistani agents asked the officer for classified documents”.
He is being questioned at the Special Cell’s headquarters in Lodhi Colony area of south Delhi.
The police are also probing if he had any accomplices.
According to informed sources, Marwaha’s phone has been seized and sent for forensic examination.
“He has even confessed to have had access to many secret documents and plans due to his posting at the Air Force Headquarters in Delhi.
(With IANS inputs)
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